Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG250088

BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA DATA CENTER, Birmingham, AL: NPDES ALG250088 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA DATA CENTER, held by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, holds NPDES permit ALG250088. EPA’s file records it issued March 1, 2017 and expiring March 31, 2022. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA DATA CENTER: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Birmingham, Alabama, and 4 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALG250088.

Identity

Facility as filed	BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA DATA CENTER
Permittee as filed	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
NPDES ID	ALG250088
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 1, 2017
Expiration date	March 31, 2022
Address	Birmingham, AL 35211
Subwatershed	Lower Shades Creek (HUC 031502020303)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	8	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	8	0	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	4	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG250088.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ALG250088.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ALG250088, held by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama for its data center in Birmingham, AL, with a permit status of administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. The page lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.